World AIDS Day 2013

Medical Mission Sisters have long reached out to those with HIV/AIDS. On December 1,World AIDS Day, latest figures show 35,000,000 people now living with HIV. 3.3 million are under 15. Even with increased availability of anti-retrovirals, in 2012, 1.6 million persons still died of AIDS. Toward an end to HIV/AIDS in our world, we continue offering hands-on care to those affected, teaching how to prevent HIV/AIDS, working with AIDS orphans, training caregivers and counselors, and being present in a healing way as “buddies” to those who suffer with AIDS.